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Remote Work Doesn’t Have to Mean All-Day Video Calls

Harvard Business

Three rules from a company that’s been fully remote since 2014.

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Learning without training – Books

The Management Centre

Burkeman looks at time management in a wholly different way – helping to go beyond the usual advice (don’t sweat the small stuff, get focused, be productive, use a diary and a to-do-list etc), and presents techniques suited to the modern always-on age. Spoiler alert: we only have around 4,000 weeks to live a full and satisfying life.

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The Lie That Perfectionists Tell Themselves

Harvard Business

Meb Keflezighi, 2014 Boston Marathon winner, associates the connection between speed and form (i.e., quality) with his 2014 win: “If it wasn’t for form, I don’t think I would have won. I think about my feet, where they’re going to land.

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Why Reducing Stress Stabilises Your Profits

Tom Spencer

The American Institute of Stress in 2014 estimated that around $300 billion is lost each year in America due to stress related absenteeism and health costs. Unmanaged stress can impact profits. While in the UK, the Labour Force Survey found that 11.7 million days were lost in 2015/16 due to stress.

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Women Book Business Travel Earlier, Saving Companies Millions

Harvard Business

million flight bookings in 2014. But what about when planning travel? Do gender differences show up there, and if so, how? To answer these questions, we examined a database of 6.4 We isolated data on how far in advance of flight women and men book their travel. Key takeaways from these views: On average, women buy two days earlier than men.

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How to Decide Which Tasks to Delegate

Harvard Business

Delegation is what helped me triple my income in 2014 from the three years prior, and delegation is what has helped me earn more so far this year, as I write this in May, than the previous three years combined. ” trap and treading water again. But all of these fears are a myth.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

During this time, management noticed that proprietors who placed ads with Recruit often represented small businesses. A year later it announced AirREGI, a point-of-sale cash register that worked with smartphones and tables and was integrated with a cloud-based data management system. “‘Why us?